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From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.5.8 and now sound issues.
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:10:06
Message-Id: 47B2EC24.4020105@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.5.8 and now sound issues. by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan wrote:
2 > "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted
3 > 47B22624.7000109@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 12 Feb 2008
4 > 18:05:08 -0500:
5 >
6 >> I recently upgraded to KDE 3.5.8 and now one of my favorite features,
7 >> the ability to adjust my sound volume from within KDE (via Audacious or
8 >> Amarok) isn't working. I have to adjust it directly with alsamixer.
9 >>
10 >> I've not made any major adjustments to make.conf or anything, so what am
11 >> I overlooking?
12 >
13 > Do you use arts or not? Even if you keep it disabled (as I do now), many
14 > KDE applications don't include much of their sound functionality if
15 > merged without the arts USE flag. Thus, even if you don't actually /use/
16 > arts, you likely still want the arts USE flag on, or you'll be missing a
17 > lot more than arts. (I found that out the hard way.)
18 >
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20 Yeah arts might be the problem, I noticed that the latest
21 artsplugin-xine update didn't emerge when I ran it earlier. It seemed
22 to compile, but failed on the install portion for some reason. I am
23 thinking now that this might be the problem.
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